TC - Epox + Palomino

[chawken]

Hey TC, you weren't joking about the processing power of the Epox with a Palomino. Got mine hooked up yesterday - 8K7A, 1.2 @ 1.404, Corsair PC2400. Doing WU's in 3hr 40min. 'AR' = .4xx

Awesome cruncher.

[Morpheus]

That is a TRULY HOT time for WUs... CONGRATS!!!

See you in the stats!!!

[TC]

Cool I thought you would like it :) Really sad when you consider I have a P4 @ 2GHz that can only muster around 3 hours 15 minutes :eek: Just shows the difference in efficiency.

[chawken]

Originally posted by TC
Cool I thought you would like it :) Really sad when you consider I have a P4 @ 2GHz that can only muster around 3 hours 15 minutes :eek: Just shows the difference in efficiency.

Here is an interesting delema. Yesterday morning, I moved the PC to a cooler room - the room that it was in was at about 80f. It had done 2 WU's with settings at 162x9 = 1.458 temp at load 51c, before moving it. When I hooked the computer up in it's new spot - room temp at 70f - it would not post. I had to knock it down to 156x9, CPU load temp at 42c. Ran all night without a flaw. This morning I bumped the fsb up to 157. I'll let it go for 24hrs, CPU temp at 44c.

What is interesting - Setispy still reports it as 1458mhz which would be 162x9. I have tweeked a couple of other PC's and Setispy reports the proper CPU speed after the tweak's.

Just curious as to why Setispy is reporting 1458mhz instead of 1413mhz.

[[Oc]acaridans]

Originally posted by chawken
Hey TC, you weren't joking about the processing power of the Epox with a Palomino. Got mine hooked up yesterday - 8K7A, 1.2 @ 1.404, Corsair PC2400. Doing WU's in 3hr 40min. 'AR' = .4xx

Awesome cruncher.


This is great, what did the, board+chip+mem run you??

[TC]

You can get the board for $120 at newegg. The 1.2GHz Palomino runs around $220 last time I checked. 128 meg stick of Corsair pc2400 goes for $48 at Minotaur: total = $388 without tax or shipping. Pretty hard to beat that price to performance ratio.